And the “E” in Revenge looks larger than the “R”… must be an unfortunate optical illusion. Too bad the designer didn’t notice. Was probably distracted by the random eye.
Lots of fonts are designed with letters like S, R, and O slightly taller than less-curvy-at-the-top letters, because otherwise they inevitably look shorter. But since this cover was done by an amateur, s/he didn’t know to do that, and manually adjusted the heights of the oversized characters to be the same.
And of course, the designer also didn’t know that other rule that professional designers know: Don’t make your cover unintentionally funny by sticking a random floating eyeball in the path of an oncoming airplane.
Indiana Jones: I had it Marcus, I had the perfect book cover design in my hand.
Brody: What happened?
Indi: Guess
Brody: The author wanted a floating eye?
Indi: Wanna hear about it?
Brody: Not at all.
Catie
9 years ago
Wow. This would have been a really good cover. I admit it’s not the most dynamic image, but the color scheme is good. I love the font treatment. The byline looks a bit like it’s floating, and the wings are a bit too large for comfort, but all in all a passable cover. And then someone went and pasted an eye in there. I bet the designer read somewhere that covers that have an eye shape on them attract more views, because they trigger some kind of danger response in people. News flash: they didn’t mean an actual eye.
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The thing which bugs me most on this cover is that the “D” in Ward looks much larger than the “S” in Steve.
And the “E” in Revenge looks larger than the “R”… must be an unfortunate optical illusion. Too bad the designer didn’t notice. Was probably distracted by the random eye.
Lots of fonts are designed with letters like S, R, and O slightly taller than less-curvy-at-the-top letters, because otherwise they inevitably look shorter. But since this cover was done by an amateur, s/he didn’t know to do that, and manually adjusted the heights of the oversized characters to be the same.
And of course, the designer also didn’t know that other rule that professional designers know: Don’t make your cover unintentionally funny by sticking a random floating eyeball in the path of an oncoming airplane.
Not the ‘g’ in daughter running in to the artwork?
I never knew the eye of the storm was an actual eye.
Indiana Jones: I had it Marcus, I had the perfect book cover design in my hand.
Brody: What happened?
Indi: Guess
Brody: The author wanted a floating eye?
Indi: Wanna hear about it?
Brody: Not at all.
Wow. This would have been a really good cover. I admit it’s not the most dynamic image, but the color scheme is good. I love the font treatment. The byline looks a bit like it’s floating, and the wings are a bit too large for comfort, but all in all a passable cover. And then someone went and pasted an eye in there. I bet the designer read somewhere that covers that have an eye shape on them attract more views, because they trigger some kind of danger response in people. News flash: they didn’t mean an actual eye.
Uhh – the eye is a problem – no doubt.
My first issue, though is that the title reads, “TEST Pilot’s Daughter: Revenge” (emphasis added).
Not “Recreational Pilot’s Daughter: Revenge” which is what I think when I see an image of a Cessna 172.
All the “experimental aircraft” images out on a tea break?
Oh MY! (But your comment cracked me UP!)